Four years after Bangkok’s century-old Nang Loeng Racecourse was demolished, a street photographer is reviving its golden days at an exhibition to remember the place and its regulars.
Artyt “Sun” Lerdrakmongkol spent every Sunday for over a year at the race track to observe the fans, gamblers, and punters there between 2017 and 2018, just before it was closed by the Crown Property Bureau.
“I was going in and out the racecourse every week for a year and six months,” he said.
Now through Aug. 25, his Poor Man’s Binoculars exhibition will feature his images shot color film to candidly capture the spectators – many of whom were drawn from the middle- and lower-rungs of society and glued to binoculars to follow the action.
After 102 years, the Nang Loeng Racecourse was ordered closed by the Crown Property…
